Rarely in life do you find a perfectly finished and unmarred surface. Whether it's due to manufacturing marks, scratches or fingerprints, surfaces tend to have small imperfections you may not even notice. When you want to add these types of imperfections or create...
This week, we released KeyShot 9.3 and with it updates to KeyShot Studio Viewer and the new KeyShot Studio Benchmark tool. KeyShot Studio Viewer is a free, stand-alone application for sharing KeyShot Studio scenes for others to view and interact with your visuals and...
The KeyShot Pattern Tool is used to quickly create additional instances of your models within a scene. This is different than using Duplicate to make a copy and much much faster than building out each model in your 3D CAD software. Each instance can look different and...
Displacement is a very powerful tool. It allows you to transform the surface geometry of your object and take your renders to the next level of detail and realism. Here's how to bring it to life with animation. Displacement Geometry Animation Animating geometry has a...
Materials. KeyShot rocks the materials. There are 700+ materials within 13 different categories for KeyShot 3. All of these existing materials are extremely powerful. Did I say 'powerful?' Yes, yes I did. Why are they powerful? Well, all KeyShot materials are...
Richard Feldman brought up a great question on the forum. What makes real real? If you're going for as realistic an image as possible, KeyShot is certainly up to the task. And, besides doing something like putting a leather material on a car body, there are certain...
![Creating the Perfect White with HDRLightStudio and KeyShot [Free HDRI]](https://www.keyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/white-paint.jpg)
We've talked about creating the perfect car paint in KeyShot, but how do you render the perfect white paint material in KeyShot? While it's one of the most challenging colors to render, it's actually not that difficult to create... if you have KeyShot. A nice HDRI and...
As you may very well know, KeyShot 3 is out, with hundreds of shiny, new materials and a rockin' new Animation system. Undoubtedly, it's causing tremors of delight on the faces and screens of users around the world. To compound that effect, we've put together a whole...
Glass! It's a wonderful thing. You can break it over your knee, then use it to cut through the rope holding down a glass box of KeyShot 3. A glass box of KeyShot 3 you need to render a glass box using KeyShot 3... it's a bit of odd, space-time shifting paradox, I...
You probably remember that time you spray painted your kid brother's face to make him blend in with your mom and dad's new electric yellow Cadillac Seville. No? Maybe that was just me. Nevertheless, you've probably become obsessed with creating the perfect car paint...
We've been featuring some free jewelry resources as well as showing a lil' jewelry animation on the blog lately, but we can't leave out this KeyShot HDR Light Studio step-by-step, by the good people over at Lightmap, that takes you through the process of lighting...
If you LOVE to render jewelry, you know the value a few 3D jewelry models have. Well, what would you say to 32 3D models?! Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Thanks to Paul Krush all that precious metal goodness can be yours. He has modeled 32 rings in Rhino that...
The wonderful and talented Craig A. Clark has a very well done article published in the latest issue of 3D Artist magazine (Issue 33). Rendering with KeyShot takes you step by step through model considerations, export, import, material selection, image maps and more....
![How to Create Your Own Material Standards in KeyShot [Free Cheat Sheet!]](https://www.keyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/gemstone-keyshot-01-555x675.jpg)
We've got some great features coming up for materials in KeyShot 3. You'll be able to save them out and share them much easier for one. To create your own materials, it's always been very easy to do in KeyShot. Simply select a material, modify the options and save it...